Yeshiva Parents Launch “Protect Our Yeshivas” Campaign

Yeshiva parents in Brooklyn began a “Protect Our Yeshivas” campaign yesterday in response to attacks against their schools by anti-yeshiva activists.

Hundreds of families and businesses are hanging window signs at their homes and offices reading “I’m a proud yeshiva parent – protect my right to choose.” The window signs and bumper stickers feature a yeshiva student, with a headline reading “I’m a proud yeshiva parent – protect my right to choose! #ProtectYeshivas.”

The campaign is organized by Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools (PEARLS), a community-based coalition of parents, educators, and religious leaders working to raise awareness of the importance of the yeshiva system.

“We’ve organized the “Protect Our Yeshiva” campaign to say, loudly and clearly, that we’re proud of our yeshivas,” said Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman, Director of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and a member of the executive committee of PEARLS. “We’re fed up with the attacks on our schools by a few disgruntled graduates while there is overwhelming support for our yeshivas system from hundreds of thousands of successful graduates.”

“Generations of families have made the choice to send their children to yeshivas because of the high-quality Jewish education they receive,” said Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America and a member of the executive committee of PEARLS. “Parents know the educational needs of their children best – not the government.”

There are more than 425 Jewish schools in New York State, with more than 165,000 students. Of those schools, 275, with more than 110,000 students, are in New York City.

If YAFFED meant it for real they would have been happy with the upgrades being introduced into Yeshiva Secular education. Instead they keep pushing the issue to include their leftest (inappropriate) ideas.
They keep touting a report based on a few interviews that our community is not successful. Not very scientific for a group who is pushing “statistics”. Where is their “bitachon” that parnsassa comes from the Eibersther not college education!

This is all a big joke and smoke and mirrors.
Parents have the clear right to choose whatever Yeshiva they want, even if it leaves their children ignorant of basic skills.

The real issue is $$$. If the Yeshivas are caught with no general studies, then they will get busted for defrauding the government. The government funds secular studies only. If a yeshiva is caught collecting text book funds, e-rate, lunch money, etc. Under these circumstances ….bad news.

Over 5000 RABBIS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
who all are yeshiva graduates
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis to Offer Spiritual Approach

WHO/WHAT: More than 5,000 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinic emissaries and communal leaderswho all are yeshiva graduate’s from 100 countries, hailing from as far as Bangkok and the Uganda (and as close as the Hamptons and the Bronx) are.

Chabad-Lubavitch was established in 1788 by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Chabad- Lubavitch is the largest continuously operating group of its kind, in the whole wide world bringing inspiration, heightened spirituality and enhanced confidence to endless beneficiaries regardless of their race or religion.

Our purpose is to provide direct, meaningful help to the – regardless of background or affiliation – in a manner that preserves and enhances their dignity.

Especially”

1. The horizons of college campus outreach.
2. The resurgence of Jewish life from Montana to Odessa.
3. A multi-sensory approach to Jewish education.
4. Addressing the needs of the growing number of special needs children and their families.
5. Caring for those who tend to be more isolated in the community such as the sick and the elderly.
6. Innovative programming for teens based on successful prototypes in various cities.
7. Deepening the connection to Israel for the 35-and-under Jewish population and providing support to victims of terror in Israel.

Renowned for its unique fusion of global activism and intellectual pursuit — which fuels the creation of at least one new religious and social-services institution someplace on the globe each week — many consider Chabad-Lubavitch to be one of the most successful spiritual movements of all time. Its vast success is credited to its cadre of dedicated rabbinical emissaries who are willing to pick up their families and move literally anywhere in the world to bring their fellow Jews closer to Judaism.

The Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries’, is a Lay Leadership with the theme of “Jewish Unity.”, with titles such as “Thinking Globally, acting Locally” and “the lay leadership attracts supporters of the movement from throughout the world (who do not consider themselves adherents of Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidism in their own lives).

Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the leader, known simply as “the Rebbe,” a renowned worldwide spiritual leader and one of the most remarkable personalities of the 20thcentury. It is the Rebbe’s profound teachings all these Chabad rabbis studied while in yeshiva on bringing goodness into this world, and the example he demonstrated while on earth, that fuels the vast and unprecedented global Jewish outreach network Chabad-Lubavitch is today.